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Japan versus China in the Industrial Race

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  • © 1998

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  1. Wei-Bin Zhang

    1. Swedish Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 1-6

  3. Confucianism in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan: The Value System of the Two Rice Economies

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 7-36

  4. Tokugawa Japan: Isolation with Confucianism

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 37-53

  5. The Qing Dynasty before the Opium War: Learning, Prosperity and Stability

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 54-70

  6. From the Meiji Restoration to 1945: Bifurcating into an Industrial Mentality

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 71-97

  7. From the Opium War to 1949: Social Chaos and Poverty

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 98-125

  8. Japan after World War II: Rapid Economic Growth and Social Change

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 126-151

  9. New China and the Cultural Revolution: Destruction of Knowledge

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 152-173

  10. China’s Economic Reform: Take-offs with Poverty as Solid Bases

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 174-188

  11. Japan and China: Divergence versus Convergence

    • Wei-Bin Zhang
    Pages 189-213

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 214-226
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Why has Japanese industrialisation been so much faster than that of China? The relative economic development of Japan and China from similar nineteenth-century conditions are examined in broad philosophical, social, political and historical perspective. The book challenges a common assumption that Chinese Confucianism does not encourage modernisation, while Japanese Confucianism propelled industrialisation forward. It examines further reasons why Max Weber's judgement, 'the Chinese would be probably more capable than the Japanese, of assimilating capitalism', has not been borne out.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Swedish Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

    Wei-Bin Zhang

About the author

WEI-BIN ZHANG is Associate Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for futures Study. His main research fields are East Asian economic development, Chinese philosophy, and ethics. He has published many academic articles. His books include Economic Dynamics, Synergetic Economics and knowledge and Value-Economic Structures with Time and Space (1996). He was brought up and received his university education in mainland China. He studied at Kyoto University in Japan for four years. He has researched in Sweden since 1987.

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